{"id":270,"date":"2008-07-17T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rawtop.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2008-07-17T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:34:00","slug":"why-hiv-infection-rates-are-so-high-for-black-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/2008-07\/why-hiv-infection-rates-are-so-high-for-black-guys","title":{"rendered":"Why HIV Infection Rates Are So High For Black Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been crazy the past couple weeks (I&#8217;ve worked through 2 weekends now) but it&#8217;s starting to calm down. I&#8217;m sorta horny but more tired, so just been jacking off a lot. I&#8217;ll get back into the swing of things soon enough&#8230; But in the meantime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered why black guys have such high rates of HIV infection? I mean look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/2008\/06\/tends-in-hiv-infection-for-gay-men-msm.html\">HIV infection graph the CDC released last month<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m725a2f2.gif\" height=\"550\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black guys are off the charts. Yet it&#8217;s not like black guys are all that much sluttier or anything. Or why is AIDS such a problem in Africa? Once again people may start to wonder about black sexuality, but it turns out it&#8217;s not that at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drkoop.com\/newsdetail\/93\/256512-31.html\">A new report out today<\/a> says the real reason is that 90% of black Africans and 60% of African-Americans have a genetic trait that makes them 40% more likely to become HIV positive than people without the genetic trait. The trait was actually a response in their evolution that made them resistant to a certain form of malaria, but now makes them more likely to become poz.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a cruel fate really. Not only does Africa have long standing development issues, but now we find they&#8217;re basically cursed when it comes to HIV and AIDS. On the other hand, the ancestors of northern European whites, who have so many advantages already &#8211; their ancestors who survived Smallpox gave 1% of them the ability to be completely immune to HIV and 10% of them the ability to be &#8220;resistant&#8221; to HIV. It&#8217;s like the people with all the advantages just get more advantages, while the people with all the problems, just get more problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re black this is just one of those things you&#8217;re going to have to deal with. Black guys who want to stay negative have to be extra careful.<\/p>\n<p>But the really sad thing is how AIDS will just continue to decimate Africa&#8230; Those of us who live in the West are so incredibly lucky &#8211; we have the wealth to pay for drug cocktails that take make a manageable situation out of a health crisis. Now imagine the equivalent of the gay community in terms of likelihood to become poz, only no money to pay for the meds &#8211; and no chance of being able to afford the meds. Always urge politicians to give funding for HIV\/AIDS in Africa &#8211; it&#8217;s the least we can do as rich Westerners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The one bit of good news today was that HIV positive people can now enter the US as visitors and as immigrants! This means there&#8217;s no fear you&#8217;ll be asked to leave the US if you become poz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been crazy the past couple weeks (I&#8217;ve worked through 2 weekends now) but it&#8217;s starting to calm down. I&#8217;m sorta horny but more tired, so just been jacking off a lot. I&#8217;ll get back into the swing of things soon enough&#8230; But in the meantime&#8230; Have you ever wondered why black guys have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}